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The Gaza–Israel barrier (sometimes called the Iron Wall [1] [2] [3]) is a border barrier located on the Israeli side of the Gaza–Israel border. [4] Before the Israel–Hamas war, the Erez Crossing, in the north of the Gaza Strip, used to be the only crossing point for people and goods coming from Israel into the Gaza Strip.
Following the Israeli disengagement from Gaza in September 2005, Israel "[established] a domestic legal framework apparently aimed at sealing off Gaza from Israel and from the West Bank" [204] Israel had previously agreed, as part of the Oslo Accords, to treat Gaza and the West Bank as a single territorial unit, a position upheld by the Israeli ...
Israeli tanks and drones have been tasked with guarding openings in the Gaza–Israel border fence and enforcing the blockade. [2] As a result of the blockade, the only power plant in the Gaza Strip ran out of fuel on 11 October, at 2:00 pm. [35] [36] This caused the electricity in the Gaza Strip to go off. [36]
Since Israel announced it was “expanding” ground operations in Gaza last Friday, more than 700 people have been killed, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. That is a near-10 per cent ...
The Egyptian-controlled Rafah crossing is Gaza's main lifeline to the outside world that is not run by Israel. It is on Gaza's southern border with Egypt, and has become the focal point of efforts ...
The lines of tanks, self-propelled artillery, armoured vehicles and army bulldozers stretch across the horizon near Israel’s border with Gaza. Pointing towards the enclave, they are ready to go.
The protestors formed a human chain from Nisanit (later moved to Erez Crossing because of security concerns) in the Gaza Strip to the Western Wall in Jerusalem a distance of 90 km. [121] On October 14, 2004, 100,000 Israelis marched in cities throughout Israel to protest the plan under the slogan "100 cities support Gush Katif and Samaria". [122]
Israel has been accused internationally of outsized response to these attacks, at times cutting off access to water, power and infrastructure supplies to Gaza, making it difficult to rebuild after ...